Absolutely agree re Rathbone, Will: always the definitive Holmes for me; tho I rather liked Nigel Bruce's bumbling Watson SFAIR -- it was a very long time ago.

However, tho I use the word 'definitive', I appreciate that this is always a dangerous way to regard any particular performance of any character. My late wife Valerie would always assert that there should be a law against anybody but Sean Connery playing James Bond; when I asked if there should not therefore be a similar law against anyone but Burbage playing Hamlet [not Garrick, Kean, Irving, Beerbohm-Tree, Martin-Harvey, Fechter, Gielgud, Olivier, Redgrave, [cont p 94]), she would change the subject!

~M~